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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (244701)	4/4/2002 11:33:09 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 769670

>> Globalization is likely to force change on these societies and their governments or they will perish. << globalization forces other countries to become dependant on the united states, not allowing them to become self-sufficient. there are numerous examples, but let's take one close to home. nafta is an example of globalization, reducing barriers to trade between the US and mexico. now mexicans are dependant on americans to provide them jobs. as of a few years ago general motors was the largest private employer in mexico. i think volkswagen may have overtaken them now. even with all the production leaving places like the united states and headed for mexico, mexicans are still pouring across the border by the millions, many coming here looking for work. i don't see how globalization efforts such as nafta have done anything to make a country like mexico more self-sufficient. i think they have become more dependant.